Why Nix Will Win (and What's Stopping It)
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I wrote this post to distill the tough lessons from using Nix in production for three years with a small team building a full-stack Elixir/React app. My core take is that Nix has already solved the impossible (reproducibility); what remains is solving the approachable (adoption).
Happy to answer any questions about our production experience or the proposals in the article.